Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 21:17:11 -0500 (EST) From: Dru <dlavigne6@cogeco.ca> To: Patrick Tracanelli <eksffa@FreeBSDBrasil.com.br> Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: live CD? Message-ID: <20021124211326.E209-100000@dhcp-17-14.kico2.on.cogeco.ca> In-Reply-To: <20021124225644.AE585938E@fep6.cogeco.net>
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On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Patrick Tracanelli wrote: > The main goal behind the idea of the LiveCD project is to allow any user to > build their own custom LiveCD. A FreeBSD System that may run directly from > the CD, with anything the user might add to it. > > Actually the idea was to maintain a Live rescue disk that sometimes could be > more flexible than the "live cd" that comes out w/ the freebsd set of CDs. > > When it started, there was 2 official live ISO images, one running a small > set of tools, to be used as rescue disk, and a bigger one, running X and a > sort of graphical applications plus firewall, bridging, routing and some > features more. It was intended to be such a demonstration CD. > > In fact we (in brazil) distributed it before, as a demo cd in some > opensource events. In particular i gave some versions of it to a number of > students at my university. > > But since the "tool set" was released we stopped maintaining a demo cd, > since the users now had a way to do it themselves. > > An ancient version of it may be found at > ftp://ftp3.br.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-LiveCD/ > > while the most recent files are at > http://livecd.sourceforge.net/download.php > > About its usage worldwide, there are users from many places in the globe > registered at the projects' mailing list. Some are also contributors, but i > believe most of them use it as rescue disk and batch instalation mode. > > If you think a more flexible demo CD worths, we may discuss a set of > applications to add and create a more recent one. Sounds like a great advocacy tool to me. Especially if it included a cool looking desktop (is that possible on a demo CD?) I get tired of the old line, I thought BSD only made a good server... What do the rest of you advocatees think? Dru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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